Tybee Forks and Starts (E)

1978

Jan Groover

Associated Names
Jan Groover

Artist, American, 1943 - 2012

The image shows a large metal cheese slicer with a silver handle, a butter knife, and a fork with four tines. The color palette includes shades of silver and a brown-orange hue reflected on the surfaces. The cheese slicer is on the left side, tilted diagonally, the butter knife is below it pointing upwards, and the fork is at the top right corner, diagonally oriented with the tines pointing upwards.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Max B. Schwartz, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Robert Miller Gallery, New York), 1982; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1979

  • American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 13 – December 2, 1979, organized by the Bell System. Travelled until April 1982.

1982

  • Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, November 5, 1982 – January 16, 1983

Bibliography

1979

  • Danese, Renato ed. American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers. Exh. cat. New York, 1979: 144, no. 199.

Inscriptions

by unknown hand on mount, bottom center in graphite: E; on verso of mount, signed by artist, bottom left: Tybee E 6/6 J.G. 1978; by unknown hand, bottom center: 207B; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 1982.3.40

Wikidata ID

Q64155581

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